CNBC's Harwood: Eastwood Speech 'Big Blunder, Big Set-Back For Romney'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Guess John Harwood was feeling lucky today. CNBC's chief Washington correspondent went on the Today show and boldly proclaimed that not only did Clint Eastwood not accomplish his mission with his RNC speech, but that the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as "a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney."

Harwood did not adduce a scintilla of evidence in support of his contention that the speech hurt Romney. And his universe of pundits apparently does not include people like Jonah Goldberg or Mark Steyn.

View the video after the jump.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Go ahead, Harwood: make my day. Ping to Today show list.

[BenLurkin]

Eastwood's stunt opened the door for the great national mocking of Prez Hussein.

Either he doesn’t get it yet, or he is pretending to not get it.

[wayoverontheright]

I take heart in the fact that the liberal media are reduced to “wishful thinking” reporting.

[PeaRidge]

I can hardly wait for those ‘empty chair’ bumper stickers.

[Tanniker Smith]

the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as "a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney."

While simultaneously viewed by the voting public as frickin' awesome.

And I know whose opinion I put more stock in.

[MissMagnolia]

Harwood is obviously a member of the “Choom Gang” .... smoking something that has destroyed a large number of brain cells.

[Lazamataz]

LOL, Harwood is funny!

[American Constitutionalist]

" Guess John Harwood was feeling lucky today. CNBC's chief Washington correspondent went on the Today show and boldly proclaimed that not only did Clint Eastwood not accomplish his mission with his RNC speech, but that the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as "a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney." ......


What else can we expect them to say ? ... the truth hurts.

[HerrBlucher]

He gets it, just doesn’t want to admit it.

[SauronOfMordor]

A week and a half after the event, and they are still obsessing about it. Flint is brilliant!

[SauronOfMordor]

A week and a half after the event, and they are still obsessing about it. Flint is brilliant!

[American Constitutionalist]

" Eastwood's stunt opened the door for the great national mocking of Prez Hussein. "

Correctamundo.... and the mocking of old Bozo will continue unabated.

[Domandred]

almost universally viewed by political professionals

These are the same "professionals" that thought the Tea Party would amount to nothing and Occupy would be the great new political movement.

They obviously get paid too much for their "professional" opinions.

[gotribe]

I’m going out today to get a RR sign for my front yard. And I’m going to put a fallen chair right next to it. Will drive the neighborhood libs NUTS.

[Gaffer]

Much like the Fantasy Football Leagues, Democrats’ own Fantasy Politics League is enthusiastic, avid and doesn’t accomplish a damned thing...

[rod1]

Harwood, ostrich, head, sand. Nothing more you need to know.

[sauropod]

Think I saw this live yesterday.

Harwood’s a tool.

[rod1]

Harwood must live way beyond the parallel where they encase you in amber.

[Dr. Sivana]

the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as "a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney."

Of course, "political professionals" comprise about .02% of all voters. And even of that .02%, perceived blunders don't change their candidate preference anyway.

[oldbrowser]

Either he doesn’t get it yet, or he is pretending to not get it.

Liberals consider themselves the ultimate arbiter of what is hip. They are the trend setters and they and only they can say when you have "it" and when you don't.

But when a megawatt celebrity like Eastwood turns the table on them, they look very irrelevant by comparison.

[JPG]

John Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Harwood roams clueless in the rat maze.

[FrankR]

Liberals are cowardly animals, usually preying on the weak and defenseless, striking out only when cornered.

Hardwood is such a creature, striking out when feeling threatened.

Eastwood has broken the bubble of ridicule that surrounds Obama, throwing his Alinsky rules right back at him.

The “palace guards” (media) is doing all they can to protect the “emperor”, but one you lose your grip, you’re going to slide on down that hill.

Thanks Clint, you’ve opened the door for Obama to leave through when we “let him go” in November.

[M Kehoe]

Well Harwood, Mr. Eastwood's "stunt" is still being talked about today, which means 0bama is still being mocked two weeks later.

Seems like Mr. Eastwood accomplished his purpose, right John?

5.56mm

[TomGuy]

Of course it was a big blunder.

[/s]

That is why the Media/Dems are still talking about it over a week later.

The only thing they have to talk about from the Dem Convention was the speech by former President and Impeached BJ Clinton.

[snowstorm12]

The only people that I saw have a hissy fit over Eastwood was MSNBC. They really blew their top and that acted koo kOO over the whole thing.

[MustKnowHistory]

You can buy them here:

http://www.cafepress.com/+empty-chair+bumper-stickers

[captmar-vell]

Having watched only snippets of both conventions, as I suspect most folks did, no one sat through it all. I came away with only two standout (message) moments to easily recall,

1) I now equate our current president as an empty chair and can easily accept that analogy without having ever thought about it before, it rings true without requiring much convincing, even to a causal observer,

2) The other message is the DNC leaders ‘booed’ God and hate Jerusalem unless allah rules over it,

So who was it that really ‘blundered’ in getting their message heard, the RNC or DNC?

[ExTexasRedhead]

I love the picture going around the Internet showing a military helicopter with our heroes looking down at an empty chair dangling from the chopper. LOL

[LaserJock]

“...the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as “a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney.”

Wow, he really got under their skin. Bravo, Clint!

[TexasFreeper2009]

yep!

bulls eye!

liberals only squeal when you hit them dead on.

[FlyingEagle]

Clint mocked obama as the nobody twerp communist that he is, and fired him. Thin skin obma is seething.

[Rennes Templar]

That sums it up well. I’m looking for a landslide come Nov. 6...

[Dr. Thorne]

When Nixon was elected, New York film critic Pauline Kael famously was shocked and sniffed, "No one I know voted for him!"

The elites truly believe that their arrogance and self-serving opinions trump reality.

[bray]

Translation: He hit a bullseye!

Pray for America

[Big Mack]

Clint seems to be very much alive and living in Harwood’s head. If it was such a blunder, he would have kept his mouth shut and let it go away.

Just proves that all lefties lie when they speak.

[svcw]

So it's been over a week and the press is still obsessing on the empty chair speech trying to convince people it was a blunder. ROTF Every time the MSM mentions it, people search for the video, all they are doing is keeping the image in the minds of their viewers. I want them to keep talking about it.

[bigbob]

"political professionals"

there you go...

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Does anybody remember when Harwood went begging and crying to his Network not to publish the stories of his “Boinking” WA Dem. Senator Maria Cantwell?

[astounded]

What was so sweet about Clint Eastwoods’ performance is that he did indeed turn Alinsky’s rules against Obama for the first time. He ridiculed Obama in front of a national audience - something that up until then had not been done. The liberal DNC mouthpieces are to stupid to understand Clint’s approach. He ACTED the entire thing - secure in the knowledge that real Americans would understand what he was doing, but that the MSM would not and would go berserk. It was brilliant!

[stayathomemom]

the speech is almost universally viewed by political professionals as "a big blunder, a big set-back for Mitt Romney."

Perhaps those who are seen as political professionals are not experts, but rather wildly partisan propagandists. Yah think??:-)

[Sacajaweau]

I put a doll house chair in the rear window of my car. I’m thinking of making a podium with pillars (2008) and putting the empty chair on stage. Maybe add a monitor.

[alloysteel]

If members of the mediabots hated what Clint Eastwood had to say, they hated it A LOT.

But in their hearts (if they have hearts) they knew that something was basically true about what Clint was saying.

And they also knew, with dread certainty, that they themselves had been the instruments of propagating a huge hoax on America.

But that would be to infer they have some kind of collective conscience.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I don’t do bumper stickers but I would use a Clint Eastwood pic with those words. Or even ‘Do you feel lucky, punk?’ Afterall, those words are iconic??

It’s not a direct insult to anyone but the message would get across, like Freedom is not Free, which is what I use.

[TribalPrincess2U]

That is downright Harty-Har-Har funny. :)))))

[Sooth2222]

'Big Blunder, Big Set-Back For Romney'

Within the limits of the District of Columbia (has it ever voted Republican?) -- but outside of the Washington beltway, out in the 57 states, I doubt it.

[Starboard]

Harwood is a liberal tool posing as a reporter.

[svcw]

Now that would be a good bumper sticker.
“There is an empty chair in each of the 57 states”
or something like that.

[Starboard]

Eastwood’s stunt opened the door for the great national mocking of Prez Hussein.

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You’re exactly right. In a very real sense, the Eastwood speech was a game changer.

[Arm_Bears]

That the MSM is still talking about, and trying to discredit, it almost two-weeks later is a testament to the effectiveness of the speech; not to mention the damage it did to Zero.